Damon Lawrence roanecounty.com

Registered sex offender and former lawyer Kent Booher was shot at Wednesday morning. Not hitting him was the only regret expressed by the alleged shooter.

“I wish I would have hit him,” Linda Flanagan was reportedly overheard saying following the incident.

Flanagan, 58, is charged with attempted first degree murder, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

The Roane County News reached out to Flanagan to get her side of the story.

“No comment,” she said.

The incident happened at Heritage Hills Apartments in Rockwood.

“The shooter, according to the 911 caller, was asking people if he was dead,” the police report said.

“Another 911 caller, Linda Flanagan, said she shot Kent Booher because he picked up her daughter and he’s not supposed to be around children. Ms. Flanagan told the dispatcher to just get them here and then hung up the telephone.”

Rockwood Police Chief Bill Stinnett said there was no indication that Booher was doing anything illegal.

“She’s an adult,” Stinnett said, about the person Booher picked up.

When Rockwood police responded to the scene they found Booher still in his car.

“I could see the driver side window had been shot,” the report said. “There were several bullet holes in the door where he was sitting. None of the bullets hit him, or the passenger in the car, Sara Phillips, the daughter of Linda Flanagan the shooter.”

Booher gave police a statement about the incident. He said Phillips, 27, asked him for a ride.

She was in the car with Booher when her mother allegedly fired multiple shots at the vehicle.

“Sara exited the car screaming for her mother to stop,” Booher’s statement said.

“Ms. Flanagan again, two or three additional shots. Ms. Flanagan started screaming, ‘Is he dead? Is he dead?’ I called 911 and laid down in my seat.”

Sgt. Jason Halliburton said he asked Flanagan where the gun was and she told him in the passenger side of her car.

“I could see a black revolver on the seat,” the report said. “I asked Ms. Flanagan for consent to search her car to recover the gun and she said yes I could. The gun is a Rossi .357 Magnum six shot. All six rounds had been fired.”

Halliburton said Officer Dustin Arnold was guarding Flanagan while he did some other things at the scene.

“Ms. Flanagan asked if Mr. Booher was shot, and told no that he thought he was OK,” the report said.

“Ms. Flanagan started crying and said, ‘I wish I would have hit him.’ According to officer Arnold, she made that statement several times.”

Flanagan is scheduled to appear in court in April.

In 2013 Booher was charged in Loudon County with one count of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of solicitation of a minor and three counts of aggravated statutory rape.

He reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to two counts of statutory rape.

The other charges were dismissed.

He was disbarred as an attorney by the Tennessee Supreme Court following his conviction.

Booher, who lives in Harriman, is on the state sexual offender registry.